Word: spiritless
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...playing of the forwards, however, was not as aggressive as that of the backs. All the line men were behind the backs in starting, and the spiritless playing of Swain and Eaton was, to say the least, discouraging. Ristine and Campbell, the new ends, lack experience alone to be first-class players, and the centre of the line was strong on the defense...
...trip down unsettled some of the men. But, after all, one who thinks the matter over is forced to conclude that the team as a whole was palpably overtrained. Not a single man equalled his performance of a week before against Pennsylvania, and all the men seemed spiritless and dead. Indeed, after the amount of work they have had, little more could be expected of them. After a long season of winter training with frequent indoor meetings, the class games and the 'Varsity games were run in April; then after a rest of less than a week during the vacation...
...convincing force of his arguments, and I do not mean to intimate either agreement or disagreement with his main position. The thing now chiefly to be noticed is his assumption that any criticism of the position taken by the government is disloyal,- "a discredit to Harvard College," "a spiritless submission to English demands," "The stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind of statesmanship which is clamored for at this moment by men who put monetary gain before national honor...
...much to earn the gratitude of all Americans. Not the least of his services was his positive refusal to side with the majority of the cultivated people of New England and the Northeast in the period just before the war of 1812, when these cultivated people advised the same spiritless submission to improper English demands that some of their intellectual descendants are now advising...
...does very well in a game with weak opponents, but when the contest is a close one and it is all important that the team should not lose courage for a moment, it makes a great deal of difference, whether the cheering is strong and hearty or weak and spiritless...